Ben McAdoo promises 'clean slate' for Giants' offense

The New York Giants offense has nowhere were to go but up after a putrid 2013 season.

New offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo will be the man tasked with leading the revival. In a conference call with the New York media Thursday, McAdoo said everyone on the offense will have a “clean slate” and they’ll focus on cleaning up the mistakes that plagued the unit last season.

“First and foremost, we hang our hat on fundamentals,” McAdoo said. “That’s going to be the focal point. That’s the first thing that we’re going to address. The second thing is we want to take care of the football. Taking care of the football is the biggest factor in winning and losing games. Fundamentals can help you there.”

Taking care of the football starts with quarterback Eli Manning, who tossed a league-leading 27 interceptions in 2013.

McAdoo, who worked under Mike McCarthy in Green Bay as a quarterbacks coach, said he will play to the strengths of his new signal caller.

“As Eli gets his hands on it and has a chance to get comfortable with it, we’ll make tweaks here and there,” he said. “Really as the offseason and training camp goes on, every offensive system tailors towards the strength of the starting quarterback, what he does well and he doesn’t do well in the pass game.”

McAdoo is entering a tough situation with an entrenched coach with an offensive background in Tom Coughlin. But the first-year coordinator said he will try to fit his concepts into an already established system rather than carry out a complete overhaul.

“The offensive system here with the Giants has been in place for a long time” he said. “The offensive system that I’m coming from I’ve been in for 10 years. With those two systems being in place as we merge them together and build towards the future, we’ll be multiple enough to use any type of personnel.

“You need to build a foundation where your system’s flexible. And the system needs to be built on the players that are involved in the system…at the end of the day it’s about the Jimmys and Joes out there playing the game…it’s about the players.”